Episode 13: Part 1: The Six Stages of Entrepreneurial Business Growth
I’ve learned that every stage of business growth requires a different version of you as a leader.
Just like parenting, your role evolves over time. The way you lead your business in the beginning is not the way you lead a million-dollar company, a growing team, or a business designed to give you your life back.
In Part 1 of this two-part series, I’m sharing one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned from working alongside hundreds of founders: businesses don’t outgrow strategy first, they outgrow leadership.
I’m breaking down the first two stages of business evolution, Birth and Infant, and the leadership shifts required to move from leading yourself and doing everything alone to trusting other people with pieces of your vision.
If everything still depends on you, growth feels heavier instead of easier, or your business cannot function without constant access to you, this episode is for you.
In This Episode, I Cover:
Why businesses outgrow leadership before strategy
What leadership looks like in the Birth and Infant stages
How the habits that help you survive can eventually keep you stuck
Why being needed is not the same as being successful
How to stop being the bottleneck and start creating capacity
The question isn’t just, “How do I grow my business?”
It’s: “Who do I need to become so my business doesn’t outgrow me?”
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